Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-17
THE VETERAN RALLY.
Reports to the Register From ALI Along
the Line.
WHAT The COMMITTEES ARE DOING.
The Beauties Of the Traffic Association Plan
Exposed
OF CASH STILL COMING In.

LOTS OF CASH STILL COMING In.
Although the weather during the past
week was not well calculated to M Ike the
average citizen hustle around very lively,
or 10 permit of much cool, calm and col
lected thought upon any given topic, the
Big Reunion has been showed ahead several
uotehes, the gentlemen of the various
committees displaying q wonderful amount
Of energy in getting the details in working
shape. The committees on Public Comfort,
Finance, Privileges aud Grounds, Music,
transportation and the Executive Com
mittee have all held more OF less formal
meetings, and the prospect Is that the
coming week will see even more activity all
along the line.
The Committee on Public Comfort has
issued q call to our people for data as to
how many strangers can be provided Tor
during the Reunion, and it is very mueh
desired that all who can find DON for
even one visitor will send in their name and
address TO Chairman Hall. With 50 many
thousands in the city there will have TO be
a good deal of croWdlng to make room, and
especially in the matter of sleeping accom-
modstions. The hotels and regular board
ing and lodging houses cannot provide Tor
more than 3 small percentage Of the whole,
and private families will have to come TO
the rescue. Accommodations will also be
provided at the Fair Grounds for 3 large
number, hundreds Of clean straw beds be-
ing in course of preparation. BY the way,
the call in last Sundays REGISTER for
straw has already been responded to, two
or three farmers having expressed their IN
tenGon OF sending in a load each. Much
more will be needed, however, and all
who can should send a load TO the Fair
Grounds.
The Committee on Grounds aud PrlTl-
leges have received quite a number OF bids
Tor privileges during the Reunion, and q
large number of prospective bidders have
consulted the plat during the week, OF
made 4 trip over TO the grounds. 1t IS ex-
oected that most of the best stands Will be
gone by the 18th inst, and those who de-
sire eligible quarters should lose no more
time. Among those who applied during
the past week was a committee OF ladies
from Hancock and Brooke counties, they
desiring to open an immense refreshment
booth. The Committee has contracted
with the firm of Thompson II ~NandaYVer,
OF Cincinnati, to put up the big tent, and
work will be commenced a W elk or ten
days before the date of the Reunion, 30
rs TO afford time for the erection OF seats,
stands, platforms, etc.
The Music Committee requests that the
| children of the public schools designing to
take part in the concert take notice
that thew will be called to-
gcther the first week in August
at some central point to be hereafter
designated. On the return of the various
Singing Societies from Pittsburg they will
at once begin 70 rehearSe for the occasion.
The full concert programme will o be
| arranged. As this feature of the Reunion
| will be something great, with tl,e posSibi-
lity OF hearing a fine SolOiSt in addition TO
the instrumental music and choruses, II
| has been thought by sOme that 4 fee OF
ten or twenty-five cents be charged
for admission 70 the big tent
during its rendition. This will
| hardly be done, however, except the
financial affairs demand it, which does not
at this time seem probable. Among the
outside Singing Societies expected appears
the name of the Bellaire Choral Union.
The Finance Committee last evening re-
| ported splendid success during the week,
and the assurance was given that all the
money necessary was in sight, and that rs
far as means were concerned, the success
OF the affair was already assured.
The Committee on Trades Display IL alsC
congratulations itself over the outlook. In
the bushes part OF the city there has been
An unanimous expression OF opinion III
favor of Joining in the display, snd the
manufacturers are also standing well IN
line.
The Committee on Transportation me-
last night 10 wrestle with the question oil
rates. The Central Traffic Association is
disposed to insist upon the certificate plan,
described in the REGISTER of last Sunday.
That this thing is impracticable is appar'
ent 10 anyone who will give the subject
i've minutes thought. 4 practical illus
tration Wa afforded in Chicago last Thurs
day, on the occasion of the meeting OF the
national gathering Of school teachers. Oi
the twelve thousand educators in attend
ance, nearly all had tickets requiring the sig
! nature of railroad Official. The New York
Herald then describes what followed:
Only one clerk was in attendance at
the office 20 stamp the tickets. The heat
took the starch out of him and his linen.
He struggled v~aliantly, with the thermOm-
eter in the nineties, 10 catechize each appll-
cant and examine the hundreds of certlh-
Gates thrust in his face. Fifteen hundred
tired, eager, perSpiriDg schOOlmarms went
without their dinners and stood in line
four hours waiting for their turns to reach
the window. Half q dozen sf the young
women tainted away in the line
and bad to be carried to their hotels.
Hundreds of the Others were overcome by
the heat, but resolutely held their places
lest they should miss their opportunity Of
reaching that solitary clerk. The rail
road people were requested to send him
more help. Word came to the meeting Of
the National Directors that If they didn't
like the present arrangement they could
20 TO n warmer place than Chicago. st.
Louis was probably meant. This "rled'
the p~edsgogues, and Pool Commissioner
Abbott was waited on with the result that
four assistants were given the forlorn
youth at the Exposition building
Ii these things happen with fifteen hun
dred persons 10 be waited on, what can be
expected IRON thirty to forty thousand?
The committee will leave no stone un-
turned to convince the Traffic Association
that the Reunion is too big q thing to
handle in their peculiar way, and we
will probably have q change from the
certificate plan.
FRESH deyiled crabs received daily al
Mavsr KiIlaantS ll9g Market street